... a wide range of dibiliatating symptoms but the worst are, tightness in chest, head pressure, shortness of breath, sleep problems, racing h beat, and of course it has done nothing to help my depression. Many symptoms only relieved with valium type drugs to relief the muscle tension. ... (0 replies)

... Hey that is so true about Peter. I guess we have to stay unfocused on this stuff to beat it. My thoughts have been somewhat less numerous the last couple of days. The anxiety is starting to be less severe too. ... (3 replies)

... t,sadness,disgust,rapid pulse, feelings of doom. I even said to my self screw this . these are not possibilities. The real me was the happy scenario, and the OCD was the harming scenario. Am I magically cured? ... (3 replies)

... Yes, I experience strong anxiety attacks when I'm going through episodes of OCD. My face gets extremely flushed, I get stomach cramps, I sweat, my heart beat goes way up, I feel dizzy, I also feel like I want to crawl under something and hide...in general, I do feel as if I'm going crazy! ... (10 replies)

... if you hit someone, you would KNOW it. you would not just drive along wondering, becasue you would not mistake it. You would KNOW it. hasanyone ever hit a deer in the road and not known it? ... (7 replies)

... then the next day I was reading this magazine and I felt compelled to beat this video game or else all my friends are "cursed". I could not beat the game in college so I went back to school but I was a wreck. ... (6 replies)

... Believe it or not I have had full blown obsessional ocd which lasted for years. Those years were filled with you name it I had it obsessions ranging from violent obsessions, to obsessions about numbers, to hocd. ... (18 replies)

... I am recovery well and just started back to work a few hours a day. This has my anxiety through the roof because I have to constantly run the the bathroom and I feel like I'm not doing my job well. ... (52 replies)

... It really stresses me out though and scares me, because I am afraid that I might snap one day and give in to my thoughts. I've never had an urge to hurt anyone or myself, so as you can tell these thoughts really bother me. ... (2 replies)

... cision which hasn't even been posed! I also find myself questioning whether or not she is "the one", and to be honest I don't think there is a specific "one" for anyone else, but these terrible intrusions convince me otherwise, as if I'm making some horrible decision by justifying my relationship to myself. ... (15 replies)